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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Family History Writing Challenge

Tomorrow February 1st is the beginning of the
Family History Writing Challenge. I have
signed up and pledged to write 250 to 300 words per day. My plan is to write about various individuals
in my family tree and intersperse these sketches with articles about the places they came from
and some happenings from their era. I will use these articles on my blog and
will not be using the Geneabloggers memes during February.

In writing about my ancestors, I will be doing a
narrative with my some of my personal observations added. I will use footnotes to document the
facts. When I can, I will include
pictures or other illustrations with the articles.

To prepare for this challenge, I have added one word to my
google calendar for each day of February, This word is either a name or a
topic. This will help me to meet the
challenge since I have found that without a topic before me, I just don’t
write. The idea is that I will be dwelling on tomorrow’s topic as soon as I
finish writing today’s blog,

I have been blogging for almost three years and will
probably revisit a few of the people but will try to write about them in a
different way.

My genealogy research began almost 20 years ago and
researching from the point of view of my grandchildren so I am also researching
my son-in-law’s ancestors. Resources I will be using include my genealogy
research, family photos where available, and personal memories, again where
available.